Three from Halden, Noway
Jan 15, 2019 14:10:27 #
catchlight..
Loc: Wisconsin USA- Halden Norway
That is called Pollarding.
Centuries old in Europe and Scandinavia and goes back to the French in the 16th Century. It is an art-form here that is comparable to the Japanese and their established techniques.
One consequence of pollarding is that pollarded trees tend to live longer than unpollarded specimens because they are maintained in a partially juvenile state and because they do not have the weight and windage of the top part of the tree.[5] Older pollards often become hollow, so can be difficult to age accurately. Pollards tend to grow slowly, with narrower growth rings in the years immediately after cutting.
It is different if you haven't seen it but it makes the trees behave in a particular way and looks normal in the summer.
Centuries old in Europe and Scandinavia and goes back to the French in the 16th Century. It is an art-form here that is comparable to the Japanese and their established techniques.
One consequence of pollarding is that pollarded trees tend to live longer than unpollarded specimens because they are maintained in a partially juvenile state and because they do not have the weight and windage of the top part of the tree.[5] Older pollards often become hollow, so can be difficult to age accurately. Pollards tend to grow slowly, with narrower growth rings in the years immediately after cutting.
It is different if you haven't seen it but it makes the trees behave in a particular way and looks normal in the summer.
StanMac wrote:
I really like that first image. It has a bit of a surreal feel to it because of the deep colors and dark sky.
A question though - why were the trees topped? I see that being done a lot where I live and it just ruins the beauty of the tree. It also shortens the life of the tree. I see many topped trees going into rot and decay on the stubs just a few years after being topped.
Stan
A question though - why were the trees topped? I see that being done a lot where I live and it just ruins the beauty of the tree. It also shortens the life of the tree. I see many topped trees going into rot and decay on the stubs just a few years after being topped.
Stan
Jan 15, 2019 14:19:50 #
Jan 15, 2019 14:28:13 #
StanMac
Loc: Tennessee
catchlight.. wrote:
That is called Pollarding. . . . . It is different if you haven't seen it but it makes the trees behave in a particular way and looks normal in the summer.
Thanks for the explanation. After reading up on it, it appears that my neighbors are doing it all wrong. It is not an annual, or even regular exercise to keep the tree to a particular size. It's pruned once, rather drastically from full height, and then not pruned again. As I said, many trees thus treated take on rot at the ends of the branch stubs and eventually die or get so deteriorated they have to be taken down.
Stan
Jan 15, 2019 17:20:14 #
Jan 15, 2019 23:52:07 #
Number one is amazing, for the light and the composition. Adding in the moon was icing on the cake. That duck looks like he’s thinking about fowling that boat😎
Jan 16, 2019 01:41:09 #
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